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Funke Opeke
Funke Opeke, founder and CEO of MainOne, outlines her visions for broadened services and impact following MainOne's acquisition in 2022 by Equinix, a US-based digital infrastructure company. View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
here and there, but a Luddite mentality still dominates the industry. When a dealership hit on the idea of using texting to keep customers up to date on work being done in the View Details
- February 1995 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Doing Business in a Distributed World: Clients, Servers, and the Stuff in Between
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Geoffrey Bock
Examines business computing as it is evolving in the 1990s. Compares the highly centralized and tightly controlled systems of the past with today's flexible, networked, client/server technology. Serves as an introduction to client/server terminology and technology. View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Transformation; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Adoption; Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Geoffrey Bock. "Doing Business in a Distributed World: Clients, Servers, and the Stuff in Between." Harvard Business School Case 195-211, February 1995. (Revised October 1995.)
- March 2011 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Wealth Management Crisis at UBS (A)
By: Paul M. Healy
The case describes the challenges that UBS faced as a result of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation for tax fraud, that claimed that UBS had helped some 52,000 U.S. residents hide billions of dollars in untaxed assets in secret Swiss accounts between... View Details
Keywords: Fraud; Regulatory Enforcement; Reputation Incentives; Crony Capitalism; Tax Havens; Legitimacy; Multinational; Strategic Change; Incentives; Transparency; Financial Services; Taxation; Crime and Corruption; Global Range; Asset Management; Ethics; Problems and Challenges; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; United States; Switzerland
Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, and David Lane. "Wealth Management Crisis at UBS (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-082, March 2011. (Revised December 2019.)
- December 18, 2023
- Article
Lessons from Building a Payment Business in Africa
By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Information Infrastructure; Credit Cards; Financial Services Industry
Gulati, Ranjay. "Lessons from Building a Payment Business in Africa." Inc.com (December 18, 2023).
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, studies how people can lead more... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
has also begun helping employers meet their workers’ complex care issues by offering an upgrade from existing solutions such as elder care services or employee assistance programs (EAP), the latter of which... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
is no stranger to entrepreneurship. In 1991, he created a sports data service that he sold three years later to Data Broadcasting Corp. (DBC), a firm that hired him to set up... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
"South Africans expect a lot from the president," says Meyer, a recent graduate of the School's Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa (SEP). "They are looking for the presidency to improve... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- May 2016 (Revised August 2019)
- Teaching Note
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing loans from Deutschland Bank. While he considers the many aspects of the deal that is about to unfold, he must decide... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
opportunity to use a “natural experiment” to explore how the agents would react. In November 2016, as the busy summer sales season was ending, the division head of the affected group changed incentives,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- December 2012
- Article
The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line
By: Francesca Gino and Bradely R. Staats
What's the best way to lift people out of poverty? The social entrepreneurs in the new "impact sourcing" industry believe the answer is providing work, not aid. Their organizations hire people at the bottom of the pyramid to perform digital tasks such as transcribing... View Details
Keywords: Outsourcing; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Nonprofit Organizations; Partners and Partnerships; Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Welfare; Cooperation; San Francisco
Gino, Francesca, and Bradely R. Staats. "The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012): 92–96.
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
they prayed." HBS's answer to Leno and Letterman, Larry Klein (MBA '80), who fully intends to keep his day job as an investment advisor, has recently packaged that and some two hundred other jokes to help financial professionals add View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- February 2023
- Supplement
Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizations; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Sweden; Europe; Singapore; London; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East; Athens; Greece
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive." Harvard Business School Supplement 423-066, February 2023.
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
undereducated and underemployed, leading many to turn to gangs and illegal activity to survive. Meanwhile, companies such as Walmart and Hilton, which may want to enter the country, are thwarted by a lack of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society
company is having in India, for example, embodies founder Henry Ford’s mantra that it is “in Ford’s DNA to give back to communities.” Said Fields, “Only a profitable business can be of service to society,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
with a growing middle class in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. We hope to become the world's newest 'tiger states.' Bureaucracy and lack of appropriate infrastructure are challenges, but most... View Details